Selected Awards and Honors
- Gibbs Lecturer, American Mathematical Society (1979);
- Dannie Heineman Prize, American Physical Society (1983);
- Howard N. Potts Gold Medal, Franklin Institute (1986);
- Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, National Academy of Sciences (1989);
- National Medal Of Science (1993);
- John von Neumann Lectureship, SIAM (1994);
- Honorary DSc, Heriot–Watt University (2000);
- Maxwell Prize, Council For Industrial And Applied Mathematics (2003);
- Steele Prize, American Mathematical Society (2006)
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